Impbovement in spring bed-bottoms



L. HULL.

Improvement in Bed-Bottoms.'

N0. 127,057. Patented May 21,1872.

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PATENT OFFICE.

.LIVERUS HULL, OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPRCVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,057, dated May 21, 1872.

To allpersons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, LIvERUs HULL, of Charlestown, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring Bed-Foundations; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication, and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure lis a top view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of two slats and their springs provided with my improved connection. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of one of such slats and the said connection. A

The helical spring, with the single-hooked arm, as shown in the accompanying drawing, is the same as used in the well-known Tucker Bed-Foundation, in which such spring is connected to the slat by a strip of leather fastened to the slat and extended from its end, and furnished with a slot or hole, to receive the hook of the spring.

Inpractice, ithas been found that the leather is liable to become stretched and broken, as

well as to be torn from the spring hook. To obviate these difculties is the purpose of .my improvement, in the carrying out of which I make use of a metallic stirrup, A, hitched upon the hook a of the arm b of the helical spring' B, and I slit the slat C at its end, to

C and the connection-strap D serves to secure the strap to the slat.

From the above it will be seen that the strap D, besides its usual function of connecting the two adjacent slats G C', is made to answer as a bearing for the pivotal part c of the stirrup A, and, as a consequence, to prevent the noise which would be liable to result were the stirrupv to bear against the wood, the leather el within the stirrup and slat C serving also as a noiseless bearing for the pivot c.

I claim- The metallic stirrup A, the recessed end slat C, the leather connection-strap D, and the leather bearing d, arranged and connected in manner and for use with the spring B, all substantially as described.

Witnesses: LIVERUS HULL.

` R. H. EDDY,

J. R. SNOW. 

